Weathered: Earth’s Extremes

What Will Earth Look Like When These 6 Tipping Points Hit? (3x5)

Air date: Sep 06, 2022

A “tipping point” is when a system, with just a small amount of additional energy, is pushed from one stable state to another suddenly and dramatically. This can be a chair falling backwards. Or it can be a major earth system collapsing. The IPCC recently identified 15 potential climate-related tipping points that scientists have grown increasingly worried we are getting close to crossing.